Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board
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Island Press is the only nonprofit organization in the United States whose principal purpose is the publication of books on environmental issues and natural resource management. We provide solutions-oriented information to professionals, public officials, business and community leaders, and concerned citizens who are shaping responses to environmental problems. In 2005, Island Press celebrates its twenty-first anniversary as the leading provider of timely and practical books that take a multidisciplinary approach to critical environmental concerns. Our growing list of titles reflects our commitment to bringing the best of an expanding body of literature to the environmental community throughout North America and the world.
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Assessing Ecosystem Services at Different Scales in the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
is analyzing the condition of ecosystem services in Portugal, recent trends in those services, available policy responses, and scenarios for the next fifty years, following the conceptual framework of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2003). It is a multiscale assessment, carried out at the national, basin, and local scales. The assessment started in 2003...
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